Databases A-Z: Search Results

Source: Cancer.gov (NCI)Access: Free to all users.Coverage: Current informationUpdated: RegularlyVocabulary: PDQ vocabularyDescription: PDQ (Physician Data Query) is the NCI's comprehensive cancer database. It contains summaries on a wide range of cancer topics; a registry of 8,000+ open and 19,000+ closed cancer clinical trials from around the world; and a directory of professionals who provide genetics services. PDQ also contains the NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms, with definitions for 6,800+ cancer and medical terms, and the NCI Drug Dictionary, which has information on 2,300+ agents used in the treatment of cancer or cancer-related conditions.

Source: Thomas Jefferson University and The Historical Society of PennsylvaniaAccess: Free to all users.Coverage: Mid-19th century to the 1990sUpdated: IrregularVocabulary: PHDIL vocabularyDescription: The PHDIL database contains over 3,000 images from the TJU Archives, located in the Scott Memorial Library, and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. PHDIL documents healthcare, architecture, medical education, and life in Philadelphia during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pivot brings together funding opportunities and scholarly profiles. Formerly known as Community of Science (COS), it is one of the world's leading online resources for funding information related to research, collaborative activities, travel, conferences, fellowships, post-doctoral positions, equipment acquisition, and operating or capital expenses. Search it by sponsor, amount, deadline, eligibility of applicant, funding type, and area of interest. The over 26,000 opportunities covered include both public and private sources of funding.

PMC
Produced by the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Source: NCBIAccess: Free to all users.Coverage: Coverage varies by journalUpdated: DailyVocabulary: KeywordDescription: Formerly PubMed Central, PMC is a free digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) with two main types of content:

Commercial publishers archive the content of entire journals, which can be viewed issue by issue or searched by keyword.

Authors whose work has been funded by NIH must contribute copies of the resulting research articles (2008-present).

POPLINE
Produced by Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project at Johns Hopkins University.

Source: Knowledge for Health (K4Health) ProjectAccess: Free to all usersCoverage: 1970 to the present; selected citations dating back to 1827.Updated: WeeklyVocabulary: Keyword, POPLINE thesaurusDescription: POPLINEÂ® contains citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE has numerous special features including links to free, fulltext documents; the ability to limit your search to peer-reviewed journal articles; and many abstracts in French and Spanish.

PrimateLit
Produced by the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center; the Primate Information Center at the Washington Regional Primate Research Center, University of Washington; and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Library Technology Group.

Source: University of Wisconsin-MadisonAccess: Free to all users.Coverage: 1940 - 2010Updated: no longer being updated as of November 30, 2010Vocabulary: Keyword, Taxonomy, GeographyDescription: PrimateLit is a bibliographic database of non-human primate research and educational literature. The literature indexed includes journals, technical reports, dissertations, books, and book chapters. Searchable six month updates are also included for journal articles and books. **No longer being updated as of November 30, 2010**

Project Tycho
Produced by University of Pittsburg - Graduate School of Public Health.

Source: University of Pittsburg - Graduate School of Public HealthAccess: Free to all users; requires registration.Coverage: 1888-presentUpdated: Not statedVocabulary: Pull down menu: disease, location, incidenceDescription:

Developed at the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, Project Tycho provides open access to U.S. surveillance data. The Project Tycho™ database aims are to advance the availability and use of public health data for science and policy. The database contains the entire history of weekly Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) reports for the United States (level 3 data). A major part of these data have been standardized for online access (level 2 data). Level 2 data include a large number of diseases, locations, and years but are not complete as standardization is ongoing. Level 1 data have been custom tailored for specific analyses and are the most complete and standardized data but for a limited number of diseases, locations, and years. Level 3 data have not been standardized and cannot be used for analysis. These data are provided upon request.

Source: Protein Data BankAccess: Free to all users.Coverage: 1971 - presentUpdated: WeeklyVocabulary: KeywordDescription: The PDB is the single worldwide repository for the three-dimensional structures of large molecules and nucleic acids. With over 50,000 structures on file, this freely available online library allows biological researchers and students to study, store and share molecular information on a global scale. Officially founded at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1971 with just seven structures, the archive is currently managed by a consortium called the Worldwide Protein Data Bank.

Source: National Library of Medicine & NCBIAccess: Free to all users.Coverage: Not stated.Updated: ContinuousVocabulary: KeywordDescription: PubChem is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. It provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. PubChem is organized as three linked databases within the NCBI's Entrez information retrieval system. These are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical similarity search tool.

Source: NLMAccess: Free to all users.Coverage: Comprehensive coverage mid-1940s - present, selected items mid-1860s - presentUpdated: WeeklyVocabulary: MeSH: Medical Subject HeadingsDescription: PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's own interface for MEDLINE. PubMed includes PREMEDLINE (new citations which don't have their subject headings yet) and OLDMEDLINE (reaching back to the 1940s). This link includes a special filter that allows PubMed's results to show which articles are free on the Internet.

While regular PubMed is free to all users, this link for Jeffersonians offers connections to the full text of Jefferson's subscribed journals and a filter to limit your results to the Jefferson collections. Use the JEFFLINE icon on record abstracts to access Jefferson subscriptions.

PubMed Health
Produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Source: NLM and NCBIAccess: Free to all users.Coverage: 2003 - present (systematic review section) mid-1860s - present (articles section)Updated: ContinuousVocabulary: KeywordDescription: PubMed Health is an evidence-based medicine resource, offering reviews of clinical effectiveness research with easy-to-read summaries for consumers as well as full technical reports. Clinical effectiveness research finds answers to the question "What works?" in medical and health care. Content is based on systematic reviews of clinical trials, developed in conjunction with a dozen international information partners; the reviews have generally been published or updated from 2003 to date. In addition, your search on PubMed Health runs simultaneously in PubMed. A filter is used to identify all the indexed scientific articles at the NLM that might be systematic reviews. The PubMed portion of the search includes articles from before 2003.

Source: PubMed PubReMinerAccess: Free to all users.Coverage: mid-1860s - presentUpdated: Not statedVocabulary: MeSH: Medical Subject HeadingsDescription: PubMed PubReMiner is a data mining tool. It searches PubMed abstracts and presents results in the form of frequency tables. Various fields are displayed, including author, year, journal and medical subject headings (MeSH). These search results can be refined and viewed in PubMed. PubReMiner is a useful tool for identifying the top journals and authors publishing in a particular research field or for helping to improve one's search strategies.

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